Seems like a pretty awful track record.
Great achievers tend to try and fail often
17 years old, 11 startups
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Re: 17 years old, 11 startups
#52I'm 19 and got nothing more than a Google Summer of Code and some halfdecent apps. Makes me feel insecure :(
Yes, you've only had your work accepted to a program run by the company with some of the best software engineers on the planet, that rejects at least 98% of those who even apply.
What could you possibly do to surpass the kid who bought 11 domain names, some of which have apps attached to them?
No offense to Mark Bao, by the way. I greatly admire that he's put together so many projects and is trying to interact at an adult level. I was not enamored of being a businessperson at his age but I produced projects at about the same rate. However, I didn't know the value of what I was doing, and Bao does. He also knows how to market himself.
But I just get deeply angry when I see people discounting their own achievements in favor of people who've put a lot of effort into personal marketing.
Re: 17 years old, 11 startups
#53Oh cool, I'm on here :D 18 now, and I've stopped calling them startups... a lot of them are just webapps :) (also no longer in high school, was going to update it two days ago until threewords.me came along, now at 1.8 million pageviews...) the new startup is http://supportbreeze.com ! Would like to note that my bhag (big hairy audacious goal) is to donate almost all my money into positive philanthropy (see below) an…
out of that group, how many are actually startups?
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#54Excellent, I really admire such young prodigies and all. Points that come to my mind upon reading it, [x] The likes of Bill Gates,Steve jobs,Larry Page,Warren Buffett and all did like 1 startup. You can easily achieve 25 by age what 40. [x] I never saw any webpage created by them advertising there personality. But again you are only 17.
...their personality.
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#55Firstly, congratulations. You're a very impressive person. I hope to see many great things from you in the future.
I second that, you should definitely apply for the Thiel Fellowship. At first i was skeptical of it, but now i understand. The entire program is structured for individuals such as yourself.
Ok, I know this is completely inappropriate, and i'm sorry about that, but i have to ask. Having founded 18 companies, sold more than a few of them, been featured in alot of very popular publications like techcrunch, mashable etc. Most startup founders won't achieve anywhere near what you have.
So my question is, are you rich yet? Rich being defined as a millionaire? (By that i don't mean valuation, i mean physical finances).
Re: 17 years old, 11 startups
#56Excellent, I really admire such young prodigies and all. Points that come to my mind upon reading it, [x] The likes of Bill Gates,Steve jobs,Larry Page,Warren Buffett and all did like 1 startup. You can easily achieve 25 by age what 40. [x] I never saw any webpage created by them advertising there personality. But again you are only 17.
That's nonsense. Each of those people had tons of smaller projects before they hit it big - they didn't just immediately know what was great and started working at it.
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#59Oh cool, I'm on here :D 18 now, and I've stopped calling them startups... a lot of them are just webapps :) (also no longer in high school, was going to update it two days ago until threewords.me came along, now at 1.8 million pageviews...) the new startup is http://supportbreeze.com ! Would like to note that my bhag (big hairy audacious goal) is to donate almost all my money into positive philanthropy (see below) an…
18 now Good. The honeymoon is over. Now you can vote, join the army, get laid without legal worries, and most importantly, be considered a true peer here without the gratuitous "17 year old" prefix on everything said about you. I have admired your progress and even enjoyed using some of your software over the past several years, usually thinking, "This guy is great. I wonder what kinds of cool things he'll be doing o…
> get laid without legal worries
Not entirely true. Now he's gotta be careful not to become a statutory rapist.
Re: 17 years old, 11 startups
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't Mark Bao miss riding dirt bikes, chasing gals, playing baseball.
Who says he doesn't do all of that? And also, where riding dirt bikes and playing basketball is your idea of fun, his may be programming, running startups and doing bizdev.
Great comment - besides spending time with my girlfriend, nothing makes me happier than bizdev and planning (even if it's for another company rather than my own)